Pennsylvania's campaign spending record fell after five more weeks of heavy TV advertising by the two gubernatorial candidates heading down the stretch to the election raised the cost of the race past $73 million.

The campaigns of Republican Gov. Tom Corbett and Democrat Tom Wolf reported an additional $11 million in combined spending Friday, the deadline to file their final pre-election campaign finance reports with the state.

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Counting the four-way Democratic Party primary, spending on the race beat the previous record of nearly $70 million set during the campaign leading up to the 2002 gubernatorial election, won by Democrat Ed Rendell.

In the five-week period that ended Monday, Wolf reported raising $3.2 million and spending nearly $6.8 million, leaving him with $3 million in the bank with two weeks before the Nov. 4 election. Wolf has spent a total of nearly $28 million.

Corbett reported raising $2.9 million and spending $4.4 million during the five weeks, leaving him with $3.2 million. He has spent almost $24 million. Combined, the candidates received more than $1 million in in-kind donations of goods and services.

Rendell still holds the individual spending record, when he spent more than $40 million to beat then-Auditor General Bob Casey in the 2002 primary and then-Attorney General Mike Fisher in the general election.

Including in-kind donations, Wolf received almost $1 million in the five weeks from labor unions, pushing their total contribution past $5 million. Billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave Wolf $100,000, and a cousin and an uncle each kicked in $50,000. Wolf's family already has given about $1.3 million. Wolf himself remains his biggest donor, having given his campaign $10 million.

The Republican Party of Pennsylvania, already one of Corbett's biggest donors, kicked in $745,000, including in-kind donations, bringing its total contribution to more than $1 million. Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley gave $100,000 from his campaign account and John S. Middleton, who sold his family's suburban Philadelphia cigar maker for $2.9 billion in 2007, gave $250,000 to bring his total contribution to $550,000.